The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel from the national bestselling author of The House That Horror Built and Good Girls Don’t Die.
On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away from that house. But of course, children don’t listen. Children think it’s fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside.
Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didn’t return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didn’t believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had vanished in a way that was ordinary, explainable.
The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie’s family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alive—alive and hungry.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman who has spent her life in the horrifying shadow of a haunted house is tormented by death, paranoia, and shocking personal revelations in this spooky but familiar domestic horror drama from bestseller Henry (The House That Horror Built). As a child, Jessie Campanelli dared her younger brother, Paul, to go into the dilapidated and reportedly haunted McIntyre House, the site of a slaughter years earlier, only for Paul to never return. Shattered by his disappearance, Jessie's family disintegrates, leaving her in the care of Ted Dobrowski, single father to bad boy Alex. Jessie grows up and attempts to leave behind the horrors of the past to start a new family—until the McIntyre House begins claiming new souls, dragging Jessie back to its dusty, rotten innards as she tries to end the house's reign of terror before it claims yet another life dear to her. Atmospheric and full of dread, the novel shines when it focuses on the tensions and terror inherent to Jessie's family dynamics. Well-trod haunted house story beats frequently give way to cliché, however. It's a mixed-bag.
